10-09-2022, 05:50 AM
(08-09-2022, 09:05 PM)Rick Pumpkin Wrote:(08-09-2022, 08:56 PM)scumslayer Wrote: Neil Allen is a class act and one of the last of his kind. Truth be told, his work is probably carrying the title now. There will come a day when he goes, or they cannot afford him any longer, and that day will be the knell for the paper.
I like Neil Allen's books but as a journo I've never thought he's that much, especially when every sentence is short and it's own paragraph. Compare him to other sports journalists like either Richard Forrester or Sam Frost at the Bristol Post, or Colston Crawford on the Derby Mail, and they can actually write interesting and in-depth articles. When was the last time The News had one of those?
if those are match reports, I'd excuse him as he is probably write them while watching the game, sending in a sentence at a time rather than a considered view.